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Well this NPR interview shows  that the idea standards aren't tied to the assessments ARE TOTALLY WRONG. In fact, the main writers of the math standards admit they were COUNTING ON THE TESTS to direct the curriculum.

Lots of people on this and other threads need to eat crow.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/12/29/371918272/the-man-behind-common-core-math

The Man Behind Common Core Math

Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while Abigail, 7, pulls addition problems written on strips of paper out of an old Kleenex box decorated like a piggy bank.

If she gets the answer "lickety-split," as her dad says, she can check it off. If she doesn't, the problem goes back in the box, to try the following week.

"I would be sleeping in if I weren't frustrated," Zimba says of his Saturday-morning lessons, which he teaches in his pajamas. He feels the math instruction at Abigail's public elementary school in Manhattan is subpar — even after the school switched to the Common Core State Standards.

[b]But Zimba, a mathematician by training, is not just any disgruntled parent. He's one of the guys who wrote the Common Core[/b]

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. [b]These days, Zimba and his colleagues acknowledge better standards aren't enough.
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[b]"I used to think if you got the assessments right, it would virtually be enough," he says.[/b] "In the No Child Left Behind world, everything follows from the test."

[b]Now, he says, "I think it's curriculum."[/b][/quote]

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